Nazi

  • german workers party is formed

    Political party founded in Munich, precursor to the Nazi Party.
  • stresemann dies

    Former Chancellor and Foreign Minister who helped the Weimar Republic recover, dies of a stroke.
  • wall street crash

    in new york wall street crashes leaving millions with nothing having a knock on affect in germany
  • Reichstag Election

    Nazis win 107 seats, becoming the second-largest party; propaganda and promises of strong leadership appeal to voters.
  • present elections

    Hitler loses to Hindenburg but gains 13 million votes, showing his popularity.
  • Reich tax

    German capital control law used by Nazis to seize assets from Jews and others leaving Germany, effectively confiscating wealth as legalized theft, especially after 1938. It was initially meant to stop capital flight but became a tool of persecution, targeting Jewish emigrants to plunder their fortunes as they fled the Nazi regime, turning a financial regulation into a discriminatory instrument of racial policy
  • elections

    The Nazis win 230 seats in the Reichstag election making them the largest party. 37% of voters support Hitler and the Nazis.
  • Reichstag election

    Nazi seats drop slightly to 196; political instability continues.
  • Eugenics programs

    They believed only pure aryan children were worthy and made sure both parents were aryan
  • hitler becomes chancellor

    hitler is elected offically into office
  • reichstag fire

    The reichstag fire is started a young communist is found at the scene and is arrested
  • the reichstag fire decree

    the reichstag fire decree
  • elections

    nazis win 288 seats (43.9%) however not majority (50%+)
  • enabling act

    hitlers enabling act was voted in with a 2/3 majority he could know pass laws without reichstag/presidential approval
  • rally

    Mass anti-Nazi rally held in Madison Square Garden, New York.
  • jewish boycott

    a nationwide boycott of jewish businesses takes place
  • removal in effect

    hitler removed jews and opponts from all govenmal jobs eg teachers
  • the Gestapo

    the gestapo secret state police is established
  • trade unions

    hitler removed all trade unions and removed them with the german labour front further solidifying his power
  • The law for the prevention of hereditarily diseased offspring

    Compulsory sterilisation of people with mental and physical disabilities
  • one party

    germany offically became a one party state (only nazis)
  • Concordat with the Catholic Church

    The Nazis and Catholic Church sign an agreement to leave each other alone.
  • dangerous habitiaul criminals law

    The German government passes a “Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals.” The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. It also provides for the castration of sex offenders.
  • night of the long knives

    hitler sets up a trap to remove the sa killing over 1000 members. after this the army swore an oath of loyalty to hitler
  • hindenburg dies

    president hindenburg dies
  • furher

    hitler is voted in as furher marking the end of democracy
  • Law for the protection of the hereditary health of the German nation

    enabling forced sterilization of people deemed to have alleged genetic disorders like epilepsy, schizophrenia, or "feeblemindedness," often based on flawed racial hygiene ideas, a dark example of state-sanctioned eugenics inspired partly by US laws but escalated to horrific levels under Hitler's regime.
  • Segregated schools

    Laws like the 1933 statute capped Jewish students in public schools, forcing them into separate, often underfunded, Jewish institutions or exclusion, a precursor to the Holocaust.